CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK
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During our tour of the Southwest we wanted to visit Goblin State Park and Capitol Reef NP. The parks where located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country. We left Dead Horse Point campgrounds and headed west. We arrange to stay the night in the Fruita Campground in Capitol Reef NP.
The area of Capitol Reef has been a homeland to people for thousands of years. Archaic hunters and gatherers migrated through the canyons. The Fremont Culture solidified around 500 CE (Common Era), from food foraging groups, to farmers of corn, beans and squash. Petroglyphs etched in rock walls and painted pictographs remain as sacred remnants of the ancient saga.